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Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… Communities around the world organise local events to meet in person, but many of these events have moved online, given the ongoing pandemic. The Indonesian community organised an online translation marathon to improve LibreOffice’s localisation in their language. They’re getting close to having 100% of the user interface translated – a big thanks for all their work! More event news: early in April, we posted an update about the join openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020, which is due to take place in October. We’re keeping an eye on the situation regarding international travel and large meetings, and will post an update on this blog soon. Leif-Jöran Olsson recently became a member of The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We chatted to him about his activities in the project, and why he chose to become a member. Meanwhile, LibreOffice’s documentation community has been working on a new help editor, making it easier to contribute. The editor simplifies the process for editing XHP, which is the dialect of XML used in the help system. We had

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more. March was a difficult month for many people around the world, so we’d like to say en extra big thank you to everyone who contributed time and effort to our software and community. LibreOffice includes a wide range of features for home users and professionals, but it can be extended further. We’re working on a new extensions and templates website, with a streamlined design and improved usability for authors and users. We’ll post more updates on this blog as it progresses! One of the many features introduced in LibreOffice 6.4 is the ability to join/merge multiple text boxes when importing PDFs. Indeed, many people have said that they find this feature especially useful, so we wrote a blog post showing it in action. Thanks to Justin Luth of SIL who implemented this feature. On March 8, we celebrated International Women’s Day. In the LibreOffice project, we try to make our community welcoming and friendly for everyone – check out this page for more info. Also in March, we posted an update about the new Board of

May was an especially busy month in the project, with new releases of LibreOffice, events, workshops, interviews and more. Check it out… We started with a new Month of LibreOffice. These are twice-yearly campaigns where we encourage people to join our community and help to improve the software. Everyone who contributes can claim a cool sticker pack at the end – and this year, we have some exclusive glass mugs for a randomly selected bunch of winners too! Learn all about it here. We’re all looking forward to the upcoming LibreOffice Conference in September, in Spain – but we’re also looking further ahead, to 2020! If you’d like to organise our conference that year, bringing together LibreOffice developers, supporters and users, see our call for locations. Applications are open until the end of June. You’ve probably heard of the Google Summer of Code, right? Well now there’s the Google Season of Docs – and LibreOffice is taking part! The goal is to give technical writers an opportunity to gain experience in contributing to open source projects, and to give open source projects an opportunity to engage the technical writing community. In May, we had two new releases of LibreOffice, thanks

We’re just over half-way through the Month of LibreOffice, November 2025. And already, 219 contributors have won cool LibreOffice sticker packs! Details on how to claim them will be provided at the end of the month, but if you don’t see your name (or username) on that page, it’s not too late to join… How to take part There are many ways you can help out – and you don’t need to be a developer. For instance, you can be a: Handy Helper, answering questions from users on Ask LibreOffice. We’re keeping an eye on that site so if you give someone useful advice, you can claim your shiny stickers. First Responder, helping to confirm new bug reports: Go to our Bugzilla page and look for new bugs. If you can recreate one, add a comment like “CONFIRMED on Windows 11 and LibreOffice 25.8.3”. Drum Beater, spreading the word: Tell everyone about LibreOffice on Mastodon, Bluesky or X (Twitter)! Just say why you love it or what you’re using it for, add the #libreoffice hashtag, and at the end of the month you can claim your stickers. Globetrotter, translating the user interface: LibreOffice is available in a wide range of